Last week I wrote a piece about the public’s confusion regarding cancer risk. I read an article from the Washington Post that made me think that I should add a few additional thoughts, most especially about so-called super foods. One of the reasons that I wanted to address super foods is that I’ve even observed […]

The American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) and the Continuous Update Project (CUP) have released their annual risk awareness survey report. The goal of the survey is to determine how well the American public is able to separate clearly established cancer risks, from factors about which there is no such scientific consensus. Actually, it’s somewhat […]

If you haven’t had a kidney stone, or watched a child suffering while trying to pass a kidney stone, you’re blessed, whether you know it or not; and as a result, you probably put kidney stones in the realm of ‘someone else’s problem. If you’re doing that, for your sake and the sake of your […]

Truly, it’s a rare occasion at my home, for the temperatures to be in the 50s and 60s during February – I have plans to breath in some of the warmer air during the next 10 days. I’ve lived in the mountain west for enough years (15) to realize that winter is not over, based […]